Danganronpa F6: Beneath the Surface- End

WinterCoat · Post by **WinterCoat** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 10:17 pm

“They were jus’ standin’ there menacingly...”

Doctor Nanjo · Post by **Doctor Nanjo** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 10:23 pm

"Hmm, you all have an interesting theory. Too bad it doesn't explain everything:"

"CLONING IS ABLE TO REPLICATE BASIC ARTICLES OF CLONING. AS YOU MAY HAVE SUSPECTED, SOMETHING LIKE THE BALL AND CHAIN THAT BENJAMIN WEARS IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CLONE."

Belphegor shows a photo to them, presumably the one which Brandy saw, and indeed the ball in chain is in the photo and indeed locked around Benjamin's right ankle.

Datamatt · Post by **Datamatt** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 10:29 pm

"So, they could have put the Benjamin clone in the furnace, but not Benjamin himself due to the weight. Huh."

KamiPanda · Post by **KamiPanda** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 10:36 pm

Doctor Nanjo wrote:"Hmm, you all have an interesting theory. Too bad it doesn't explain everything:"

"CLONING IS ABLE TO REPLICATE BASIC ARTICLES OF CLONING. AS YOU MAY HAVE SUSPECTED, SOMETHING LIKE THE BALL AND CHAIN THAT BENJAMIN WEARS IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CLONE."

Belphegor shows a photo to them, presumably the one which Brandy saw, and indeed the ball in chain is in the photo and indeed locked around Benjamin's right ankle.

"Oh, right, of course," Seb said, nodding. "So that means... Well, Benjamin can't be a clone. Was the Matt in the picture a clone after all? That way Benjamin was down in the torture room at 12:20, Matt and Klifford were upstairs in the pachinko room and both got knocked out," Seb summarised.

Doctor Nanjo · Post by **Doctor Nanjo** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 10:56 pm

Belphegor lets out a droning hum. "I see... So that's what you think."

"Then here, I'll confirm it for you:"

"THE REAL MATT GUSTILY IS IN THE PICTURE AT 12:30."

"H-h... H-h-h-h-h-h-h... H-h..." he snickers.

"Also..."

"CLONES ARE UNABLE TO PLAY THE PACHINKO MACHINE."

KamiPanda · Post by **KamiPanda** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 11:05 pm

"Did they... alter their sizes maybe?" Seb guessed at random. "Trying to gain extra blood to donate?

"But if that really was Matt, and Benjamin was also real, then... Does that mean the person being dragged on the ground at 12:20 was a clone after all?" Seb said, arriving right back at square one. "Unless there's some way for the Benjamin to be fake even with the ball-and-chain."

Doctor Nanjo · Post by **Doctor Nanjo** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 11:23 pm

Belphegor nods, "Nope. THE PERSON BRANDY SAW DRAGGING ACROSS THE GROUND AT 12:20 IS REAL. THEY WERE ALSO REALLY KNOCKED OUT. ADDITIONALLY, THE PERSON SEEN IN THE TORTURE ROOM AT 12:20 IS REAL."

He thumbs the side of his forehead.

"Was there any way you could have known that? All these possibilities of clones sure are confusing, huh? Oh well, at least it's been cleared up now."

"ADDITIONALLY, ONLY A NORMAL-SIZED PERSON COULD FIT IN THE CHAIR TO PLAY PACHINKO."

KamiPanda · Post by **KamiPanda** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 11:28 pm

"Then... either the one doing the dragging was a clone, or they made it to the elevator before the gas was released. Is the latter possible?" Seb asked.

Doctor Nanjo · Post by **Doctor Nanjo** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 11:33 pm

"If the button was pushed when Brandy said it was, THEN THE LATTER IS IMPOSSIBLE."

"Additionally, A CLONE CANNOT WALK THROUGH ANY COMMAND BUT THEY CAN STAND."

KamiPanda · Post by **KamiPanda** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 11:37 pm

"Oh, wait, so then, how about this?" Seb began. "If someone was already unconscious when Brandy pressed the button, would they be able to wake up naturally afterwards, before the 15 minute mark?"

Doctor Nanjo · Post by **Doctor Nanjo** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 11:41 pm

"... NO."

Belphegor chuckles.

"Nice play."

CaptainPancakes · Post by **CaptainPancakes** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 11:44 pm

Doctor Nanjo wrote:"If the button was pushed when Brandy said it was, THEN THE LATTER IS IMPOSSIBLE."

"Additionally, A CLONE CANNOT WALK THROUGH ANY COMMAND BUT THEY CAN STAND."

"So what? The clones are just for decoration? I thought they could perform simple tasks."

Doctor Nanjo · Post by **Doctor Nanjo** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 11:46 pm

"The commands are just there to give the façade of true life. Otherwise, there's not much of a purpose to them."

"It's a trick, but not a very versatile one."

KamiPanda · Post by **KamiPanda** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 11:40 am

"Alright then, let's think. The current topic is still what happened at 12:20, which we've yet to figure out due to the confusion of who could possibly be where," Seb said. "We saw someone, not a clone, being dragged off-screen at 12:20, then Brandy knocked them out. However two non-clones were seen at 12:30, still conscious. Therefore those two non-clones, Matt and Benjamin, had to have been down in the torture room at 12:20. Or, I guess, one of them could have been up in the liquor room having a drink, we know someone did. Either way, that means Klifford has to have been the one who was unconscious in the pachinko room, and he also has to have been dragged without someone being in the room with him. Therefore... I guess he was being dragged by a rope of some kind? The wire found in the torture room, perhaps?" Seb concluded uncertainly. "The hole in the elevator floor means that someone could, potentially, pull the rope from the floor below and drag Klifford that way. I can't at all imagine what that would even achieve though.

"The main issue with this theory that I can see is that it doesn't explain why the picture from 12:30 looked 'off'. The two things may be unrelated, but, it seems reasonably likely that there's a connection of some kind. Knowing what's wrong with the 12:30 picture may also help explain what happened before at 12:20. For example... maybe one of either Matt or Benjamin was unconscious in the picture, and had just been made to look like they were awake and talking? I can think of even less reason to do that than the rope-dragging idea though, it's just an example really."

Doctor Nanjo · Post by **Doctor Nanjo** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 3:48 pm

"THE ELEVATOR DOORS ONLY OPEN WHEN THE ELEVATOR IS ON THE FLOOR WHERE THEY ARE OPENING."

"I'm not pointing out a contradiction though..."

"I think it is time we move on from this topic to something else:"

"Who did which challenge, and how were they solved?"

KamiPanda · Post by **KamiPanda** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 4:09 pm

"Well, currently... I think Matt had at least some alcohol, but they clearly didn't try to complete that challenge and moved onto the others. If my earlier logic was anywhere close to correct, Klifford did the pachinko challenge and was then knocked out. No-one could actually attempt the torture challenge until 12:55 though, as Daniel knocked them out at 12:40. At that point Klifford was awake again, so could in theory have been the one torturing Benjamin, though it sounds like only one person did each challenge."

Datamatt · Post by **Datamatt** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 4:18 pm

"It couldn't have been Matt doing the liquor challenge, since only a little liquor was drank. Considering the tape recording, I think what the janitor's said is pretty much correct, though, since the dumbass drunkard was carrying a knife, wouldn't it be more likely for him to have been doing the pachinko?"

KamiPanda · Post by **KamiPanda** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 4:24 pm

"You don't need a knife for the pachinko challenge though, the chair is set up to extract blood as necessary," Seb replied. "Matt didn't do the liquor challenge, but I'm certain that didn't stop him from having a drink just for the sake of having a drink. I suppose that might also explain why he looked exhausted? Though I'd have thought Matt was too used to alcohol for just a drink or two to leave him like that.

"Him being exhausted is easily explained by him losing blood to the pachinko machine. The only issue with that is, how does that line up with the knockout gas being used at 12:20, and Matt being seen conscious at 12:30?"

Doctor Nanjo · Post by **Doctor Nanjo** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 4:49 pm

"Don't pay attention to that. Perhaps the mental stress of the situation was getting to Matt? Who knows why he was tired. It could have been anything..."

Belphegor chuckles to himself ominously.

Doctor Nanjo · Post by **Doctor Nanjo** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 7:22 pm

"I suppose you all are looking for a change of pace at this point. Who played the Pachinko machine? Who won it? Who was tortured and who did the torturing?"

"I know you can't find the answers so easily..."

"With that, I'd like to introduce a new topic: What happened to the body on the second floor?"

"That must be possible at this point, right?"

KamiPanda · Post by **KamiPanda** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 9:26 pm

"Ah, if we're talking about that, then... Well, I can only think of one way to get a body to look like that," Seb said. "I don't know for sure how it ended up where it did, but, it looks to me as though it was crushed under the elevator. What else could compress it so thin? I think, perhaps, that would also explain why there was a single hand intact: that was the part of the body that just so happened to fit through the hole cut into the elevator floor when it crushed down.

"As for how it got to the other side of the room, well, we've already seen teleportation magic is possible. Maybe there was a magic circle at that area we just couldn't see due to all the blood and such?"

Datamatt · Post by **Datamatt** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 10:18 pm

"It has to be that. Got crushed by the elevator. That means someone knew of the elevator and came in... from the top room? So there was a fourth person in the challenge rooms?" Daniel seems very skeptical.

WinterCoat · Post by **WinterCoat** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 10:51 pm

Brandy spoke up, out of nowhere, for a stupid reason. "Belphy, is it possible to create a self-sustainin' loop with one teleportation circle?"

Doctor Nanjo · Post by **Doctor Nanjo** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 4:06 am

"IT IS NOT."

Belphegor shakes his head at Brandy.

"THE UNMARKED CORPSE DID INDEED HAVE A TRANSPORTATION CIRCLE UNDER IT."

"That makes it obvious, doesn't it?"

WinterCoat · Post by **WinterCoat** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 5:09 am

Brandy thought for a moment, trying to connect some dots while her player was plastered. "Okay, let me think. If Daniel couldn't immediately identify the person in his 12:20 picture, n' the person in my 12:20 picture wasn't Benjamin, then I'm gonna guess we can place Benjamin as the one draggin' the person outta my 12:20 photo. It logically follows that, by usin' his ball n' chain as an identifyin' feature, then the absence of it removes 'im from any scene n' places him elsewhere. But... that creates a problem, since I saw him n' Matt talkin' at 12:30 when he should've been knocked out on account o' me pressin' the button. However, Belphy only specified that the Matt in my 12:30 picture was real, meanin' that it's possible I knocked out a clone o' someone instructed to carry out the simple task of takin' that body outta the frame. That's the only way to explain Benjamin n' Matt talkin' at 12:30, I think, since I think even Matt would be able to tell a clone apart from the real Benjamin... unless the Benjamin at 12:30 I saw was in fact a clone... In which case, uh, oops? I don't really know..."

Doctor Nanjo · Post by **Doctor Nanjo** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 5:39 am

"Ahh... Unfortunately nobody in any of the pictures you or Daniel saw was a clone. And unfortunately clones cannot move someone like that."

"In fact, since all this spell nonsense is quite confusing, I'll just say it:"

"NOBODY COMMANDED A CLONE."

KamiPanda · Post by **KamiPanda** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:49 am

"Ah, good to know," Seb said, nodding.

"So, then, it seems pretty clear now that the body was crushed by the elevator, and then teleported over to the spot on the pachinko room floor. All that remains is figuring out how the body was crushed, exactly: where it would have been and how it got there; and then also figuring out how it got teleported if it wasn't actually inside the elevator where the circle is.

"One way they could get someone underneath the elevator is by first shrinking them, which might be what the circle in the elevator was for, and then dropping them down the small hole cut into the floor," Seb suggested. "Then crushing them would be a simple matter. However it wouldn't explain how they were teleported back to the pachinko room. It sounds to me as though they drew a circle onto the floor of the elevator shaft, or possibly onto the underside of the elevator, which by all rights should be impossible due to the doors always being shut."

KamiPanda · Post by **KamiPanda** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:45 am

"...Wait a moment," Seb said before anyone had a chance to respond. "That picture, I just realised what's wrong with it. Benjamin had the ball-and-chain wrapped around his right ankle, but, it's meant to be on his left."

WinterCoat · Post by **WinterCoat** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:33 pm

"...are you shittin' me?" Brandy asked in disbelief. "How'd he get it on the other ankle?"

KamiPanda · Post by **KamiPanda** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:39 pm

"I'm not sure. It should be impossible to remove, and we saw it on the correct ankle on Benjamin's corpse," Seb said uncertainly.

"Ah, just quickly I'd like to update my prior theory. Not only was the victim shrunk and dropped through the hole, but, there's no reason whoever drew the circle on the shaft floor couldn't also have done the same thing. Shrunk themselves to drop down and draw it," he then said. "Though it might be difficult to get back up again? There's a chance whoever drew the circle is also the one who got crushed... Even if that seems strange."

Collin1002 · Post by **Collin1002** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:42 pm

"Well, if the person who drew a circle underneath the elevator was crushed, how was the corpse teleported?" Oliver asked. "Doesn't a certain word need to be said to make the spell activate?"

Datamatt · Post by **Datamatt** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:42 pm

Collin1002 wrote:"Well, if the person who drew a circle underneath the elevator was crushed, how was the corpse teleported?" Oliver asked. "Doesn't a certain word need to be said to make the spell activate?"

"It can work from the other side is what I'd think."

WinterCoat · Post by **WinterCoat** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:47 pm

"What if the person bein' dragged outta the photo I saw was the person that would then be shrunk down? You don't need consent, right? I'm pretty sure that's how it worked with Charlie..."

Brandy cleared her throat.

"Goin' with Seb's idea makes sense. So it's really jus' a coin toss on whether it was Matt or Klifford that got crushed, I think."

Datamatt · Post by **Datamatt** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:52 pm

WinterCoat wrote:"What if the person bein' dragged outta the photo I saw was the person that would then be shrunk down? You don't need consent, right? I'm pretty sure that's how it worked with Charlie..."

Brandy cleared her throat.

"Goin' with Seb's idea makes sense. So it's really jus' a coin toss on whether it was Matt or Klifford that got crushed, I think."

"I think it was the doc, soldier. The glasses were most likely thrown in to make it look like he died instead - and the hole facilitates it."

WinterCoat · Post by **WinterCoat** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:59 pm

"I'd rather not believe Klifford would do somethin' like that, but... everyone's desperate at this point..." she sighed. "But, there's no way that's all there is to it, right? I feel like we have so many other uncertainties, like Benjamin's ball n' chain switchin' ankles, for instance."

KamiPanda · Post by **KamiPanda** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:03 pm

"If... Benjamin shrunk, the ball-and-chain wouldn't shrink with him. He'd get out of it," Seb suggested. "Though it would be weird for him to make a mistake when putting it back on again."

WinterCoat · Post by **WinterCoat** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:07 pm

KamiPanda wrote:"If... Benjamin shrunk, the ball-and-chain wouldn't shrink with him. He'd get out of it," Seb suggested. "Though it would be weird for him to make a mistake when putting it back on again."

"What would be the point in him shrinkin', then? The whole point of this shrinkin' idea is that the person that was shrunk got crushed. Granted, it's possible two people could've shrunk down, but... why would he need to? Unless maybe he was tryin' to hint to us that they'd been usin' spells by puttin' his thing on the wrong ankle? Like, he knew how it was all gonna end."

KamiPanda · Post by **KamiPanda** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:11 pm

"That... would actually make some sense," Seb agreed hesitantly. "That lines up with something else he did: he intentionally recorded that conversation between him and Matt. There was no need to do that other than to allow us to listen to it afterwards, perhaps for this very reason.

"Alternatively, maybe there was a mirror hung up on the wall, hanging from the screw? That way the camera would take a mirrored picture of the scene, but because the background is symmetrical Brandy wouldn't normally notice. Then later the mirror was removed, leaving Brandy just staring at the wall with the screw in it."

Datamatt · Post by **Datamatt** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:24 pm

"Hey, Satan! Can we check the bottom of the shaft?!" Daniel hollers. "Is there anything down there or what?!"

WinterCoat · Post by **WinterCoat** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:25 pm

"A mirror is the only way to explain the ankle thing, plus the weird vibe 'bout the picture in general," Brandy said, agreeing with Seb. "I'm not sure where the mirror went, though..."